NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson Underway Meteorological and Oceanographic Data from 2018-2019

NOAA Ship Oscar Dyson collected raw underway meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical time series data in the Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean from 2018-01-28 to 2019-04-17. Office of Marine and Aviation Operations personnel submitted the data, which was logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System and archived by NCEI via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository program. The dataset also includes supplementary cruise-level metadata from the Ship Daily Activity Log.

Use Cases

• Modeling regional weather patterns based on the described meteorological data.
• Analyzing ship navigation and ocean currents based on the navigational data.
• Studying ocean optical properties based on the optical data mentioned.
• Correlating physical oceanographic variables with time series for climate research.

Strengths

• Data spans a 15-month period from January 2018 to April 2019.
• Covers multiple geographic regions: Southeast Alaska, British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska, and North Pacific Ocean.
• Includes multiple data types: meteorological, navigational, optical, and physical, as described.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last updated 2019-04-17; freshness should be verified for current applications.
• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

NOAA_NCEI

Collection Method

Automated archival via the NOAA Rolling Deck to Repository (R2R) program from data logged by the ship's Scientific Computer System.

Time Range

2018-01 28 to 2019-04-17

Freshness

Last updated 2019-04-17 00:00:00

Geography

Coastal Waters of Southeast Alaska and British Columbia, Gulf of Alaska, North Pacific Ocean